EDITED COLLECTIONS
Empirical Ecocriticism
Edited by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, and W.P. Małecki
Thematic cluster of articles in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (2020)
“Empirical Ecocriticism: Environmental Texts and Empirical Methods” — Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, and W.P. Małecki
“‘Just as in the Book”? The Influence of Literature on Readers’ Awareness of Environmental Justice and Perception of Climate Migrants” — Matthew Schneider-Mayerson
“Narrating Human and Animal Oppression: Strategic Empathy and Intersectionalism in Alice Walker’s ‘Am I Blue?’” — W.P. Małecki, Alexa Weik von Mossner and Małgorzata Dobrowolska
“Media Students, Climate Change and YouTube Celebrities: Readings of Dear Future Generations: Sorry Video Clip.” — Pat Brereton and Victoria Gomez
Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film
Edited by Alexa Weik von Mossner
Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014
- Introduction – Alexa Weik von Mossner
PART I: General and Theoretical Considerations
- Emotion and Affect in Eco-films: Cognitive and Phenomenological Approaches – David Ingram.
- Emotions of Consequence? Viewing Eco-documentaries from a Cognitive Perspective –Alexa Weik von Mossner
- Irony and Contemporary Ecocinema: Theorizing a New Affective Paradigm – Nicole Seymour
PART II: Anthropomorphism and the Non-Human in Documentary Film
- On the “Inexplicable Magic of Cinema”: Critical Anthropomorphism, Emotion, and the Wildness of Wildlife Films – Bart Welling
- Emotion and Political Environmental Documentary: Darwin’s Nightmare and The Cove –Belinda Smaill
- Documenting Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics at Sea – Robin Murray and Joseph K. Heumann
PART III: The Effects and Affects of Animation
- Animation, Realism, and the ‘Genre of Nature’ – David Whitley
- What Can a Film Do? Assessing Avatar’s Global Affects – Adrian Ivakhiv
- Animated Eco-cinema and Affect: A Case Study of Pixar’s UP – Pat Brereton
PART IV: The Affect of Place and Time
- Moving Home: Documentary Film and Other Remediations of Post-Katrina New Orleans – Janet Walker
- (Re)presenting the Ecological Indian and Eco-Activism in Contemporary Native American Film – Salma Monani
- Affect and Environment in Two Artists’ Films and a Video – Sean Cubitt
Academic reviews:
O’Dell-Chaib, Courtney. 2019. Review Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, edited by Alexa Weik von Mossner. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture. 13.3 (2019) 387-389
Schwarz, Heike. 2018. Review Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, edited by Alexa Weik von Mossner. Anglia 136 (1): 229-231.
Blasi, Gabriella. 2017. Review Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, edited by Alexa Weik von Mossner. Projections: The Journal for Movies and Minds 11 (2): 109-114.
Rust, Stephen. 2016. Review Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, edited by Alexa Weik von Mossner. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 22 (4): 919-921.
Anson, April. 2016. Review Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, edited by Alexa Weik von Mossner. University of Toronto Quarterly 85 (3): 367-368.
Gaier, Ted. 2015. Review Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, edited by Alexa Weik von Mossner. The Goose 14 (1): 1-4.
Wiegand, Erin E. 2015. Review Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, edited by Alexa Weik von Mossner. Interdisciplinary Humanities 32 (2): 119-123.
The Anticipation of Catastrophe: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture
Edited by Sylvia Mayer and Alexa Weik von Mossner
Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2014
- Introduction: The Anticipation of Catastrophe: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture – Sylvia Mayer and Alexa Weik von Mossner
PART I Fictionalizing Global Climate Change
- Explorations of the Controversially Real: Risk, the Climate Change Novel, and the Narrative of Anticipation – Sylvia Mayer
- Risk, Denial and Narrative Form in Climate Change Fiction: Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior and Ilija Trojanow’s Melting Ice – Axel Goodbody
- Things We Didn’t See Coming – Riskscapes in Climate Change Fiction – Antonia Mehnert
II Representations of Nuclear Risk
- “These Rays May Be Helpful or Harmful”: The Depiction of Radium in Early 20th Century American Newspapers – Holger Kersten
- The Stuff of Fear: Emotion, Ethics, and the Materiality of Nuclear Risk in Silkwood and The China Syndrome – Alexa Weik von Mossner
- Nuclear Risk, Domestic Responsibility, and the Uses of Comedy: Elizabeth Stuckey-French’s The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady – Anna Thiemann
III Environmental Risks Across Media
- Beyond Climate Refugees: Nature, Risk and Migration in American Poetry – Christine Gerhardt
- A Sense of an Ending – Risk, Catastrophe and Precarious Humanity in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake – Karin Höpker
- “It’s theoretically possible”: Disaster and Risk in Contemporary American Film – Nicole Maruo-Schröder
- Green Gaming: Video Games and Environmental Risk – Colin Milburn
Academic reviews:
Bergthaller, Hannes. 2017. Review The Anticipation of Catastrophe: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture, edited by Sylvia Mayer and Alexa Weik von Mossner. Anglia 135 (4): 768-71.
Leikam, Susanne. 2016. Review The Anticipation of Catastrophe: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture, edited by Sylvia Mayer and Alexa Weik von Mossner. Amerikastudien/American Studies 61 (4).
Durczak, Johanna. 2015. Review The Anticipation of Catastrophe: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture, edited by Sylvia Mayer and Alexa Weik von Mossner. Polish Journal for American Studies 9: 196-199.
Dislocations and Ecologies
Edited by Alexa Weik von Mossner and Christoph Irmscher
Special Issue of EJES: European Journal of English Studies (2012) 16.2.
- Dislocations and Ecologies: An Introduction – Alexa Weik von Mossner & Christoph Irmscher
- Reduced Ecologies: Science Fiction and the Meanings of Biological Scarcity – Ursula Heise
- Transplantations: Vegetation Imagery in the Poetry of Derek Walcott and Lorna Goodison – Marija Bergam
- ‘There was a Time’: Postcolonial Ecology and Mourning in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow – Senayon Olaoluwa
- Husbandry, Agriculture and Ecocide Reading: Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather as a Postcolonial Gorgic — Elspeth Tulloch
- A Sense of No-Place: Avatar and the Pitfalls of Ecocentric Identification — Hannes Bergthaller
- Louis Agassiz’s Animal Flowers: Embodiment, Ethics and the Nineteenth-Century Scientific gaze – Deanna Wendel
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